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Maya Deren
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Maya Deren
Birth nameEleanora DerenkowskaiaBornApril 29, 1917
Kiev, Russian Republic (present-day Ukraine)DiedOctober 13, 1961 (aged 44)
New York, New York, United StatesSpouseGregory Bardacke (1935-1939)
Alexandr Hackenschmied (1942-1947)
Teiji Ito (1960-1961; her death)NationalityAmericanFieldChoreography, Film, Dancing,Ethnography, EthnomusicologyTrainingNew York University, New School of Social Research, Smith CollegeWorksFilms: Meshes of the Afternoon(1943), At Land (1944), A Study for Choreography for Camera (1945),Ritual in Transfigured Time (1945-1946), Meditation on Violence(1947), The Very Eye of Night(1959)
Books: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1953)
An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946)AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Creative Work in Motion Pictures, (1947)
Grand Prix Internationale for Amateur Film, Cannes Film Festival(1947)
Birth nameEleanora DerenkowskaiaBornApril 29, 1917Kiev, Russian Republic (present-day Ukraine)DiedOctober 13, 1961 (aged 44)
New York, New York, United StatesSpouseGregory Bardacke (1935-1939)
Alexandr Hackenschmied (1942-1947)
Teiji Ito (1960-1961; her death)NationalityAmericanFieldChoreography, Film, Dancing,Ethnography, EthnomusicologyTrainingNew York University, New School of Social Research, Smith CollegeWorksFilms: Meshes of the Afternoon(1943), At Land (1944), A Study for Choreography for Camera (1945),Ritual in Transfigured Time (1945-1946), Meditation on Violence(1947), The Very Eye of Night(1959)
Books: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1953)
An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946)AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Creative Work in Motion Pictures, (1947)
Grand Prix Internationale for Amateur Film, Cannes Film Festival(1947)
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.